Definition of Drive in

1. Verb. Cause a run or runner to be scored. "His line double drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run"

Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Causes: Hit, Rack Up, Score, Tally

2. Verb. Arrive by motorcar. "The star and her manager drive in today from their motor tour across the country"
Generic synonyms: Arrive, Come, Get

3. Verb. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion. "Drive in screws or bolts"
Exact synonyms: Screw
Generic synonyms: Go Around, Revolve, Rotate
Derivative terms: Screw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drive In

drive-in movie
drive-ins
drive-off
drive-through
drive-thru
drive-time
drive-volley
drive Irish tandem
drive around
drive at
drive away
drive back
drive by shooting
drive by shootings
drive home
drive in (current term)
drive line
drive line system
drive off
drive offs
drive out
drive someone crazy
drive someone up the wall
drive the porcelain bus
drive time
drive times
drive truck
drive up
drive wheel
drive wheels

Literary usage of Drive in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Every afternoon they went out for a drive in her carriage; and, on one occasion, as they were passing along the Place de la Bourse, she took the idea into ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Devine' brigade of cavalry was directed to cross the Shenandoah, work around the base of the Massanutten range, and drive in the cavalry which covered his ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1903)
"... at all events, that these were the only logs embraced in the contract which were in the river in time for the plaintiff's drive in the spring of 1886. ..."

4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"CHAPTER XIX A drive in SUNLIGHT AND A drive in MOONLIGHT THE fatal time to come for her was in the Summer of that year. Emma had written her a letter of ..."

5. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"... THE FRANCO-AMERICAN drive in THE CHAM- PAGNE-MEUSE-ARGONNE SECTOR September 26, 1918—October 10, 1918 SIX days after the one hundred and twenty-sixth ..."

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